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Carter's speech from the platform is usually cultivated and unpretentious. He pronounces both the b and the h in humble. In relaxed conversation, however, he probably does use might could, done dead, ain 't, multiple negatives and more than a few other folk forms of vocabulary, morphology and syntax...
...Schweiker, conceded Delegate Bob Beckham of Georgia, is akin to the dilemma of a father "whose favorite son marries a girl you don't particularly like-you just do the best you can with it." More sympathetically, Guy Hunt, chairman of the Alabama delegation, agreed that "the church ain't just for the righteous. Sinners can come...
...Fred Newhouse of the U.S. who watched helplessly as Juantorena burst past him in the last 20 meters. "He ain't God," said Newhouse, "but he's good." "He's what the future of running is going to be," said Mai Whitfield, gold medal winner in the 800 for the U.S. in 1948 and 1952. "He had no respect for nobody. He just went out there and started smoking...
...Carter is in best shape in the South, which has not had one of its own in the White House since Tennessee's Andrew Johnson in 1865-69. Cracked his friend and adviser Charles Kirbo, with considerable hyperbole: "Jimmy's got the black vote. He's got the rednecks. Ain't nobody else...
...time management. One of us is returning because he likes the group he's with. All of us dislike one part of the job or another, mainly because it is not at all easy or glamorous work. The money is important in most cases, because face it--Harvard ain't cheap. But no amount of money could fully compensate for the frustrations and sacrifices endured by those who work a full summer. Service attitude is important. As Business Today reported in 1974 of the nature of business...